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Chief executives from some of the world’s largest companies will come together with senior leaders from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, KKR, KPMG, Morgan Stanley and UBS to discuss how the financial services industry can advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality at the first Out on the Street: Europe Leadership Summit.

The City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, is investigating claims by a whistleblower that Britain's £300bn wholesale gas market has been "regularly" manipulated by some of the big power companies, exploiting weaknesses that echo the recent Libor scandal.

In the space of a week, Britain has flagged talks with Syria's armed rebels, renewed an offer of exile to Bashar al-Assad, embraced a new opposition body and convened a donor conference to help oust the regime.